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Company: Sprint Nextel Corporation
Current Parent Company: T-Mobile US
Penalty: $1,000,000
Year: 2009
Date: September 11, 2009
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: telecommunications violation
Violation Description: Sprint Nextel agreed to pay $1 million to settle litigation alleging it improperly gave customers cell phone numbers with pre-existing billing obligations that carried over from previous users.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 3:06-cv-07587
Case Name: Valdez v. Sprint Nextel Corporation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Washington
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
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